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Prof Paula Reavey

@reaveyp.bsky.social

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Professor of Psychology and Mental Health, Deputy Director of the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory. Memory, mental health, service user rights, lived experience perspectives. Hammer House of Horror obsessive and avid follower of post punk .. more

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · Apr 5

In the mutable environment of the Morehead District Papua New Guinea stability of external memory is given by ‘witness trees'. Join Professor Nicholas Evans talk at the Centre and online illustrating the mnemonic value of these planted memorials placememory.net/events-2/gro...

Growing from stems: planting memory in Bimadbn

Professor Nicholas Evans at the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory 4:15-5:30pm, Tuesday, April 15, 2025 Lecture Theatre A96 in Pathfoot, University of Stirling Online ZOOM pass 676157 5:30…

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · Feb 18

Dr Pablo Fernandez Velasco, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at @uoyphilosophy.bsky.social tells us that London’s taxi drivers can teach AI a few things about how to plan the most efficient route 🚕 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How London’s Taxi Drivers Navigate the City Without GPS

Drivers of the city’s black cabs can teach satellite navigation apps a few things about how to plan the most efficient route, a new study says.

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · Apr 5

Six funded PhDs, Centre for Sciences of Place and Memory, Univ Stirling (Scotland). Join our team in philosophy, cognitive sciences, social sciences, & arts to study spatial thinking, disorientation, cities, truth & the past. Deadline 22 April, guidelines placememory.net/apply-now-fo...

PhD Studentships 2025

We are recruiting six PhD studentships to advance knowledge of the dynamic relations between place and memory, and how people navigate together in space and time.

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Prof Paula Reavey @reaveyp.bsky.social · Mar 29

Jacqui Dillon and I are editing an International Routledge Handbook of Lived Experience in the Context of Madness and distress. There is still time to submit an abstract and so far we have received submissions from all over the world! Exciting! See below for where to submit 👇🙂

Jacqui Dillon @jacquidillon.bsky.social · Jan 28

Thrilled to announce that @reaveyp.bsky.social & I have secured a contract with Routledge to publish an International Handbook of Lived Experience in the Context of Madness and Distress 😀 Interested in contributing? Please email [email protected] for info re submission guidelines.

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David Spurrett @doctorspurt.bsky.social · Mar 19

The 'Scaffolding Bad' collection in Topoi (I co-edited with Giovanna Colombetti and John Sutton) is finally complete, with 21 papers and an introduction. link.springer.com/collections/...

Scaffolding Bad: Varieties of Situated Cognitive Harm

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi on Scaffolding Bad: Varieties of Situated Cognitive Harm. The special issue aims to ...

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Jacqui Dillon @jacquidillon.bsky.social · Jan 28

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Prof Paula Reavey @reaveyp.bsky.social · Jan 28

Agreed, thought it was a masterpiece.

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Prof Paula Reavey @reaveyp.bsky.social · Dec 15

I love reading this book at least once a year.

A first wave feminist classic about the distress inducing constraints felt by Victorian women. I still think it has enormous relevance not least for exposing the perils of gender inequalities and power dynamics in relationships and families. Wonderful

Prof Paula Reavey @reaveyp.bsky.social · Dec 11

poor you. let me buy you a bun x

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CONFLICT NEWS FELLA @warosintfella.bsky.social · Dec 5

A doctor’s letter to United Healthcare for denying nausea meds for a child on chemo

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Arianne Shahvisi @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social · Dec 5

Would anyone like to come and do a fully-funded (fees + stipend) PhD in the philosophy of inequality with me and some lovely, brilliant colleagues? The project is entitled "Rethinking moral status in light of global health inequality" and the ad is here: shorturl.at/53G67 Apply by 31/1/25

Rethinking moral status in light of global health inequality at Brighton & Sussex Medical School on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Rethinking moral status in light of global health inequality at Brighton & Sussex Medical School, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · Dec 5

For anyone working in adolescent mental health: I *really* recommend reading this important paper about the most commonly used questionnaires (inc SDQ)

In short: most of them have poor psychometric properties, so do we even know what they are measuring?

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Estimating adolescent mental health in the general
population: current challenges and opportunities
Louise Black, Margarita Panayiotou, Neil Humphrey
Adolescence is a period of change and increased mental health difficulties, which are important for lifetime outcomes.
Adolescent mental health is therefore an active research area, with large samples often drawing on self-report general
measures (ie, not disorder-specific or focused on a narrow outcome). We argue that these measures have a key role in
our understanding of issues such as prevalence, antecedents, prevention, and intervention, however, measurement
has been given little attention and high-quality measures do not tend to be available or used. We offer insights into
historical and psychometric challenges that have contributed to current problems and highlight the implications of
relying on poor measures, which at their worst can be biased and unethical. We make recommendations for research
and practice on selecting measures and improving the evidence base and make a call to action to reject low-quality
measurement in this field.

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · Dec 5

Free download for two weeks

Personal Identity and the Self

Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Mind and Language - Personal Identity and the Self

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Prof Paula Reavey @reaveyp.bsky.social · Nov 29

Our ‘Lived Experiences of Distress’ research group is advertising a 4.5 year long Senior Research Fellow post in Psychology and Mental Health. We are a passionate and dynamic bunch! looking for a senior team member to join and develop our work further.

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Senior Research Fellow (Psychology and Mental Health) at London South Bank University

Discover Senior Research Fellow (Psychology and Mental Health) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

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Prof Paula Reavey @reaveyp.bsky.social · Nov 28

PhD scholarships available at the University of Stirling! linked to the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory. Share away and do give me a prod if you would like to discuss further.

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Apply Now for PhD Studentships 2025

We are recruiting 2-4 PhD studentships, fully funded by the University of Stirling, which will aim to advance knowledge of the dynamic relations between place and memory at multiple timescales…

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Prof Paula Reavey @reaveyp.bsky.social · Nov 27

Don Letts came to Walthamstow last night to talk about his new book ‘There and Black Again’ and to show his documentary on reggae, punk and post punk. The footage of The Slits, Prince Far I, The Clash and Siouxsie and the Banshees was just incredible. And he gave me a wee cuddle, so
I’m very happy.

Prof Paula Reavey @reaveyp.bsky.social · Nov 20

Current mood after submitting a grant application and book proposal on the same day….

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Prof Paula Reavey @reaveyp.bsky.social · Nov 20

Come and join our exciting new Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory, with up to 4 PhD studentships on offer and more to come next year!

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Prof Paula Reavey @reaveyp.bsky.social · Nov 17

We have just started an Interdisciplinary Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory, funded by Leverhulme at the University of Stirling. With Prof John Sutton as director and me as Deputy with academics from philosophy, psychology, heritage, anthropology, arts etc. we can’t wait to get stuck in!

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